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Issue 79 / 2015
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The pop-up project, organised by
peace-building charity International
Alert, aims to raise money for
international peace-building activities
by introducing Londoners to cuisines
of various conflict zones across
the globe. Conflict Café is all about
"harnessing the power of food to get
people together, breaking bread, and
starting a conversation."
Charlotte Onslow, who works for
International Alert said, "We want to
make sure you don't talk only to the
person you came with, so we have
long tables and materials on them
that generate questions; there will be
specialists who explain a bot more
about the conflicts."
The café, based in the arches of
Waterloo station, will serve different
traditional food each week, kicking
off with the flavours of Syria, cooked
by Damascene chef Haitham Yassin.
Diners will then get to experience
food from the Middle East, Nepal,
Colombia, and Armenia and Turkey,
where an Armenian and Turkish chef
will cook together.
It's a Waterloo tIng:
ConflICt Cafe
The Conflict Café returns for a second year until
October 3rd
Leftover festival gear has been sent to migrants in Calais
good eggs: glastonbury festIval
Several hundred pairs of wellies were
abandoned at this year's festival, and
after initially going to a recycling
centre in Somerset, they were paired
and checked by volunteers and sent
out to migrants in Calais along with
2000 rain ponchos and some first
aid kits.
Glasto team member Liz Clegg came
up with the idea, and she helped
distribute the gear over in Calais in
conjunction with Association Salam,
a French charity helping to get food
and clothes out to the migrants.
Hundreds of other wellies from the
festival already went out to Romania,
and in partnership with the Small
Steps Project, were given to people
who work on landfill sites.
